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My paternal grandmother was a very, very liberal Jew from Hungary. Her husband and children are not Jewish. She ate pork and shellfish. She didn't observe the Shabbat. That sort of Jew. She still had a Jewish funeral (as did her totally non-Jewish daughter...), though, and her brother and his wife (and his ex-wife) are rather involved in the synagogue and the local Jewish community.
I'll call myself "Friend to the Jews". Good?
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Non-practicing here, both my grandparents were Ashkenazi Jews who immigrated at a young age from Poland. I celebrate the holidays with my extended family (Yom-Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, etc) but it doesn't go much further than that. I plan one day to visit Isreal but that's nothing more than a notion for the future.
Maelstrom
A friend of mine, the only Jewish person I know well (cultural, he's nonreligious) has an adorable Star of David quilt sewn by his mother. It's great.
edited 31st Aug '11 1:14:50 AM by Five_X
I write pretty good fanfiction, sometimes.
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I'm quite religious, Orthodox, and proud of it! 
My dad's Jewish. Does that count?
Writer of horse words
I think it has to be your mom for it to count. 
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It does have to be your mother, according to religious law, it's passed on through the matrilineal line.
I'm a convert, Conservative, from Christianity. I have a copy of the Torah at home, and I am actually moderately religious; however, I don't express it much. To me, religion and beliefs are private things. I haven't gone to a synagogue in a long time (which saddens me greatly), but I still try to learn about things, and ask questions, and live my life according to the laws set out and my own principles. The only thing I'm horrible at is keeping kosher...
I do pretty much avoid pork, though. I eat it occasionally, although in my house, we don't eat much red meat to begin with.
Erm, does that count?
edited 31st Dec '11 11:58:27 PM by punkreader
Jewish atheist. I still keep kosher, though
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Agent of Light
Not to butt in on a thread that doesn't directly apply to me, but perhaps some of you could answer my question. Does anyone know what the numbers are for cultural or secular Jews (I hope that's the right term) versus practicing Jews. I only ask because I have yet to meet a practicing Jew in my life, and I very much admire the Jewish religion. I'm Christian, so yeah...
Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar
I'm a Christian, but eh...I read Torah.
I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.
Wandering Jew
Oh just shut up.
No one needs your sarcasm.
edited 2nd Sep '12 4:42:46 PM by DeviantBraeburn
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edited 2nd Sep '12 4:46:39 PM by Madrugada
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Wandering Jew
But he started it.
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I don't care. Stop it. Arguing with a transparent sockpuppet of your own is not amusing.
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edited 2nd Sep '12 7:31:18 PM by dontcallmewave
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Wandering Jew
The true magic of Judaism.
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Sorceress Bookwench
A week late Happy New Year from a non religious in a jewish family. :)
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So...yeah.
Ashkenasic, secular for three generations...on my father's side. My Israeli family says it counts because we're from Russia. Anyway, I don't eat pork, I love to argue and I'm a nerd, that has to count for something. Also, I never got any Christmas presents, so if I can't be sort-of-Jewish in compensation, that would be really unfair.
Complicated - because simple is simply too simple.
Decoy
If you count Jewish as ethnicity I had few Jewish ancestors, but majority of my known ancestors are native Poles and Tatars.
My President is Funny Valentine.
Aussie Tolkien freak
Anyone Ashkenazi, observant, and want to help me out with checking cultural details/answering questions for a post-apocalyptic steampunk novel set in New York and inspired by Oliver Twist?
The road goes ever on. -Tolkien
whatever he can
L'shanah tovah, everyone.
Technically. I'm a Hiloni and, well, I don't even keep kosher. But I'm an Israeli for all it's worth.
L'shanna tovah for all the Jews out there.
Aussie Tolkien freak
I have a question which is a bit sensitive. Sorry if I accidentally offend anyone in this thread. One of my side projects/story ideas is a post-apocalyptic steampunk version of Oliver Twist narrated in first-person by the Artful Dodger and using the character of Fagin as a way to comment on anti-Semitism. I want some opinions on whether it is possible to make Fagin a fence who happens to be Jewish and get rid of his stereotypical traits (miserliness) without him being a stereotype?
And a related question: is red hair really a stereotypically "Jewish" thing? It's often mentioned as one of the physical traits which made the original Fagin a stereotype. The other is the shape of his nose in illustrations from the book. That said, I have a friend whose ancestors were Polish and Russian and also Jewish and she's got bright red hair and freckles.
edited 19th Nov '13 11:56:21 PM by MorwenEdhelwen
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Culturally Jew-Ish. Nonreligious.
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